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LeBron James Dunk Video Proves You Can't Hide From Social Media

You might have heard a lot about basketball superstar LeBron James two weeks ago. It wasn't about anything he did, but what Xavier's Jordan Crawford did to LeBron at a Nike tournament: a two-handed slam right over James' head. It's not ideal to have a 20-year old unknown dunking over you when you're trying to build a basketball legacy, but it sounds like a really minor blip in the grand scheme of things.

And it would have likely have remained a blip, if Nike hadn't confiscated all of the video tapes of the dunk captured by writers. Rumors are that LeBron didn't want it to surface, while others say Nike didn't want the dunk to tarnish the image of one of their biggest endorsers. Regardless, the entire thing blew up, but no video of the event ever surfaced.

But this is the social media age. Almost every phone has a video camera. Did they really think they could keep video of the dunk bottled up?

Not one, but two videos have surfaced. One is from TMZ, while the other is in the possession of eBaum Nation. And today, they both were released.

Here's the lesson: trying to hide things in the social media age backfires. With cameras and camera phones everywhere, what you say or do can easily appear on YouTube the next day. When you try to hide things, they blow out of proportion, and in the end, find their way out anyways. Being straightforward and authentic is almost always a better choice.

Here are the dunk videos, if you're curious:

If you ask me, the dunk really doesn't live up to the hype. But whose fault is it that this dunk became such a big deal, anyway? Exactly.

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